Elder and Sister Lowell "Rusty" and Tamara Snow

Elder and Sister Lowell Snow, the newest member of the West African Area Presidency visited the MTC where they both spoke to our missionaries. The church is very small when it comes to events that shape and impact our lives. Forty eight years ago - 1957 - as a fourteen year old I went on a National Boy Scout Jamboree to Valley Forge, Pennsylvania and because we were only two from Heber City we were assigned to a Troop from St. George Utah with a Scout Master by the name of Snow and a troop full of Boy Scouts from St. George, among them a thirteen year old with rusty colored hair and therefore earned the right to 'go by' Rusty. I had not seen 'Rusty' nor had any dealings with him nor remembered him in any way until meeting him in the parking lot of the West Africa Area Offices on his first morning arriving to work in Accra. It was not his Rusty hair - because it is now 'not' Rusty, but instead something about him rattled a memory of a hot train ride across the United States many years ago and a dusty march into a centeral camping area with a young man who everyone referred to as Rusty. Imagine, I can't remember what I had for dinner last night but I remembered a thirteen year old scout named Rusty. Well today he is Elder Lowell "Not Rusty" Snow and accompanied by his eternal companion Tammy, mother of five and grandmother of twelve. They delivered a marvelous 'pair of counsels' to some very attentive missionaries.

Also, Carolyn and Elder Snow 'grew' up together in St. George - same class in school until "Rusty" split from St. George and 'went North' during his high school days. She had never had occasion to run into him again but between St. Geoge growing up memories, mutual friends and Valley Forge swapping neckerchiefs, we were not without converstion material.

They had dinner with us - food is always good and will sustain life but when we have special guests we eat a notch above normal. We love having guests. Also Sister Vivian and Elder Mintah our two French Teachers 'dined' with us.

Elder Dixon from Kaysville dropped by on his way home from Camaroon where he finished his mission and spent the night with us because the mission home is too far away in Cape Coast to make the journey there and back before flight time to Kaysville International Airport. It was a special experience for both Elder Dixon and one of our missionaries, Elder Grah because Elder Dixon had baptized our Elder just over a year ago and the reunion was special for all of us. (Read "An Eternal Bond" on this web site)